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Anonymous ID: 9be00e May 18, 2024, 7:22 a.m. No.20883000   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3099 >>3103 >>3128 >>3221 >>3324 >>3414 >>3588 >>3661 >>3692 >>3722

Soldiers of Fortune: the Rise of Private Military Companies and their Consequences on America’s Wars

 

Mercenaries adapted to changing trends in statecraft and warfare by merging into corporate entities under the title of private military companies, or PMCs. America, the country with the strongest national military, is oddly the largest customer of PMCs. According to the Congressional Research Service, roughly 10% of America’s armed forces were privately contracted during WWII, but during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,the proportion has grown to a staggering 50%.This past July, the Trump administration confirmed America’s affinity for PMCs when the president’s advisers recruited Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide security firm, and Stephen Feinberg, owner of the military contractor DynCorp International, to draft alternative military strategies in the Middle East that rely primarily on private contractors.

 

https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2017/10/25/soldiers-of-fortune-the-rise-of-private-military-companies-and-their-consequences-on-americas-wars/

 

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https://www.e-ir.info/2018/08/02/the-invisible-army-explaining-private-military-and-security-companies/

Anonymous ID: 9be00e May 18, 2024, 7:50 a.m. No.20883049   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3103 >>3221 >>3324 >>3403 >>3588 >>3661 >>3692 >>3722

>>20883029

an inch is no longer an inch

that makes you taller…

 

Why Has the Inflation Calculation Changed Over Time?

 

Consumer prices are increasing at the fastest clip in about 40 years, climbing 8.3 percent in April compared with a year earlier.

 

As popular anger about the rising costs mounts, a chorus of critics have been arguing that the sky-high inflation figure is actually being undercounted.

 

In YouTube videos, on conservative talk shows and in posts by financial analysts, the critics argue that over the past several decadeseconomists have tweaked one of the government’s standard measures of inflation, the Consumer Price Index, in ways that understate how quickly prices are rising.Those lower inflation figures give the government some economic breathing room, they claim, saving money on expenses like Social Security.

“The bottom line is these are not accurate numbers,” Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host, said during a segment on inflation late last year. He added, “Do the math and you will see that the actual number, the rise in inflation, is not even close to the 7 percent that Washington is claiming.”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/24/technology/inflation-measure-cpi-accuracy.html

Anonymous ID: 9be00e May 18, 2024, 8:32 a.m. No.20883116   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3130

>>20883099

no it's not

they're mercenaries

but I never implied I was against it

in LB some "anon" tore into another anon who said we had a lot of private contractors fighting overseas

anon was right and I was supporting his claim

state militias are not being sent overseas